Working and Lymphoma with Selsus - August 2023

Supporting Families P1 ‘Working & Lymphoma’
This is part one of a three part mini-series aimed to help support families through a lymphoma diagnosis.
This webinar was presented by Occupational Therapists from Selsus Andrew Smith and Dr Amy Wallis.
Mr Andrew Smith has worked as an Occupational Therapist in the cancer sector for the past 19 years. His clinical career has included senior roles in the acute, primary care and not‐for‐profit cancer sectors, alongside work in program development, research, quality, experience, leadership, and innovation. He has worked in some of the country’s leading cancer organisations including the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre, Olivia Newton John Cancer Centre, Victorian/Tasmanian Youth Cancer Service, Leukaemia Foundation of Australia. and Breast Cancer Network Australia. He has published in peer reviewed journals on the topics of Occupational Therapy in Cancer, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship, Psycho‐Oncology and Cancer Survivorship. His interest areas are helping people live their best lives with and beyond cancer, blood cancer, breast cancer, youth cancer, cancer related fatigue and cancer and employment.
Dr Amy Wallis is an occupational therapist with extensive experience as a clinician and academic spanning over nineteen years. Amy has worked in both the private and corporate sectors, and tertiary education settings in the areas of chronic conditions management, pain management, rehabilitation, and neuromuscular conditions. She currently works as a university academic teaching and researching in occupational therapy in Western Australia. Amy’s research interests include qualitative methodology, occupational therapy in cancer care, survivorship care and return to work for people living with cancer. Amy is published in multiple peer-reviewed journals and has been a reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed journals. Amy has also completed her PhD exploring the adolescent and young adult’s experience of living with cancer, from an occupational perspective.